Brazil’s Integration and Regional Development Ministry and the Federal Police are investigating an intrusion into the country’s civil defense mobile alert system. Reports say millions of Brazilians receive false government notifications after the system was compromised, with messages containing the word “misanthropy” (also reported as “misantropi4”). Officials describe the alerts as not originating from the official protection and civil defense network. NDTV reports that authorities believe the messages are “remotely ordered by someone outside” the national system, and that they were delivered to users in multiple regions of the country. Bloomberg similarly notes the investigation is focused on the sending of the phrase “misanthropy” to millions of mobile phones. The Next Web adds that the breach occurs overnight and that the system was taken offline around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday after the ministry confirmed the intrusion. The reports indicate the fake “Extreme Alert” notifications affected at least several states. Authorities have not publicly identified the perpetrators or confirmed the full scope of the compromise.